Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: The Underground Railroad was the principle means used by slaves to escape their captivity. Two important "stationmasters", Thomas Garrett and William Still, are depicted in this documentary on the Underground Railroad in Delaware.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 WHIHowatt, William A.
Summary: "A mental health expert and addictions counsellor shows readers how to move away from isolation and loneliness, and build authentic connections."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 HOWHoward, Philip K.
Summary: A darkly humorous assessment of what the author identifies as a loss of freedom to make sense of daily choices in America cites such dilemmas as inane safety warnings and the growing powerlessness of business and educational leaders, in a call-to-action that argues for more empowering, common-sense boundaries of law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 HOWHoward, James K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northland Press 1976
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.22 HOWHoward, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 HOWHoward, Philip K.
Summary: Everyday Freedom, in the tradition of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense , offers a radical vision for Re-empower Americans in their everyday choices. The massive legal structures erected since the 1960s were based on flawed notions that human judgment could be replaced by elaborate dictates. Area by area, these failed structures must be replaced with simpler frameworks activated by human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodin Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 349.73 HOWAdams, William Howard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.46 ADAWillis, K. J
Summary: Showcases dozens of full-color plants from around the world in a gallery format, complemented by identification information and brief descriptions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BPP 2017
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Summary: "When a child is struggling with a behavior challenge or wants to learn a new skill, a contract can be a surprisingly effective solution that leads to more peaceful family dynamics. To help families create contracts as a collaborative process, Let's Make a Contract offers an innovative combination of how-to text for parents and illustrated stories for children. For parents, Let's Make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Collective Book Studio 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 DARWilliams, C. K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WILGoolrick, William K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1979
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WOREverson, William K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 EVEKlingaman, William K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KLIHartmann, William K.
Summary: An introduction to the geography and geology of Mars, written in the style of a travel guide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.923 HARGoolrick, William K.
Summary: Discusses the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and events surrounding it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIM VOL 18Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the 'muckraking' press Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.91 GOOMarkle, Sandra
Summary: "What if you woke up one morning and discovered you were living inside a wild animal's home instead of your own? How would that change your daily life? What If You Had an Animal Home!? is the next imaginative book in Sandra Markle's popular What If You Had...? series. If you had a honeybee's home, you'd always have room service. If you had a meerkat's home, you'd play hide-and-seek for hours....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: "In this vivid and surprising history, we meet activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were "business statesmen" who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "If you could have any ocean animal's superpower, whose would you choose? If you could shapeshift like a giant Pacific octopus, you could squeeze through even the smallest gaps. If you could snap your claws like a coconut crab, you could slice through sheets of metal. An awesome book of ocean animal superpowers!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.77 MARBald, F. Clever (Frederick Clever)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1961
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 BaldLeuchtenburg, William Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1963
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 LEUWilliams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
Summary: In his first book of poetry since Repair, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, C. K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity-the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events-with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 WILWilliams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
Summary: Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I was for whom everything was going too slowly, too slowly." Poems about animals and rural life are set hard by poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sudden desire on the Paris Métro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010